Books by Quinn Price
View All Books

Books

View All

Let Go

Unleash the Power of Surrendered Excellence

Most people are not exhausted because they do not care.
They are exhausted because they care with a clenched fist.

They grip outcomes, relationships, work, money, health, family, politics, old wounds, and the future itself. They call it responsibility. They call it love. They call it being realistic. Much of the time, it is fear wearing work...

Read more

Exit Wounds: A Practical Guide to Leaving High-Demand Systems and Rebuilding Your Life

You left the system.
Why do some aspects of your experience continue long after leaving?

For people leaving Mormonism, high-demand religion, spiritual abuse, and other identity-capturing systems, the hardest part is often not the decision to leave. It is the aftermath.

The beliefs may fall apart quickly in light of scruitiny. The emotional...

Read more

Work Lean: A Manager’s Guide to Building Teams That Continuously Improve How Work Gets Done

Your team is working hard. That’s not the problem.

The problem is that a significant percentage of what they do every day; the approvals, the reports, the handoffs, the rework, the meetings about meetings, doesn’t need to exist. It’s waste. Hidden in plain sight, dressed up as work, consuming the capacity of capable people who could be doing...

Read more

Blog

Many of you know that, as an organizational effectiveness consultant with years of experience in organizational design, culture, and process change, I wrote a book on designing policy, procedure, culture, and systems to protect children. Creating Safe Spaces: A Complete Guide to Child-Safe Organizations.

Hey, Catholic Church, Mormon Church, and others whose leaders pound their chests while ignoring actions that are proven to work, and all the others who actively seek to avoid accountability...

10 Competencies of the High Performer During my executive coaching days, I

During my executive coaching days, I helped clients pick outcomes that mattered most by leveraging high-performer research. Would it surprise you to learn that high performers are made, not born? If so, wouldn't it make sense to build capability where it matters most?

Let's step back for a moment. High Performer? What are we talking about?

High Performer Defined

Some employees consistently accomplish more than others. They solve harder problems. They become the people others depend on. They...

There's a particular flavor of outrage that shows up in expat groups around the world, and it goes something like this: "I am NOT an immigrant. I'm an expat." Forty replies later, several people threaten to leave the group. Seriously?

You lose your power when you allow labels to trigger you.

I found this out the hard way when I landed in Peru and heard the label "gringo" used as a smear. And they said it with intense derision. Griiiiigo. Don't call me that!

Words contain energy. High-demand...

View All